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Song11 - The Great Cake War

And now for something completely different...

OK... here goes. This is my attempt at... ready for this... musical theater! No, really! So, what happened was that I got talked into writing some musical sketches for a comedy-type production that is being developed, so I decided to set about trying to write things that could play on stage.

So, this song and the next one are meant in that vein... take them for what they are... hopefully there's a laugh in here somewhere.

The feel for this one is supposed to be a slinky jazz sorta thing... one you could happily finger-snap along to. Since this is basically an argument between husband and wife, I drafted my wife to fill in the other part. We ended up doing it spoken word style for simplicity sake... but if that bothers you, feel free to imagine a slinky jazz melody.

The thuds at the end are supposed to represent "cake missiles".

UPDATE:
Some of the delivery is a bit awkward, but we only did a single take... the theory being if it were actually done for a theater production, we'd practice and polish it a lot more... it's really just a rough demo. We found it was a struggle to keep in synch with the shifting time sig and still keep it verbally sounding natural...

Based on a comment by Willis, I went back and did a slight remix. The laughter he pointed out bothered me so much that I re-released it with a slightly different mix.

LYRICS

The Great Cake War

M: I wouldn't have put it there if I'd known what you'd do
W: I wouldn't have done it if I knew that there was two
M: well How was I to know you had already grabbed one
W: well thanks to your laziness now we're stuck with none

M: It's not lazy to put it on the counter with care
W: it is if you don't look to see what's there
M: I looked and didn't see the other cake at all
W: Did you see the bag..
M: not that I recall

W: It was inside the bag, labeled bakery on the side
M: Is this some new game, cakey seek and hide
M: Didn't you see the big cake inside it's pretty box
M: or did you think it was some box full of rocks

W: It was an ordinary box, no marking showed at all
W: and I tried to lift around it so that it wouldn't fall
M: Well that didn't work, it clearly plain to see
W: It's not my fault, don't pin this one on me

W: This isn't even the cake I asked for you to get
M: What? you said cake with yellow and chocolate
W: What I meant was Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
W: Not Chocolate with yellow... how disgusting

M: Well I want to know who's cleaning up the mess
W: Oh I know this one.. don't tell me let me guess
M: Are you saying I don't clean up around here
W: sure you do... if you count dusting each leap year

M: You like the cake so much, HERE, have some more
W: Ag.. why did you... Fine.. This will settle the score
M: Agh... here take that
W: And you take that

MP3

cakewar.mp3